tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855223901782590860.post6171176355964980191..comments2024-02-19T05:12:30.844-05:00Comments on Oh Boym: The Year When Stalin Diedcbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03342342242345926624noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855223901782590860.post-90260149149983986882010-06-17T11:56:07.544-04:002010-06-17T11:56:07.544-04:00It's a beautiful object and I think it presage...It's a beautiful object and I think it presages the wonderful Constantin Boym monuments!Eames Spottinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15750206946663398818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3855223901782590860.post-47975731825475235472010-03-26T20:58:56.870-04:002010-03-26T20:58:56.870-04:00A lovely account of a particular moment or event t...A lovely account of a particular moment or event that stops time for a moment. Then, when everything comes back to life, a shift in perspective occurs and one's life points in a new direction. What a strange gift. I can't begin to guess at its significance. Did your father once produce a wallet in such disrepair that your mother was embarrassed for him? Oris there some folk meaning in the presentation of a wallet, the belief that a new wallet attracts new money.<br />Then, there is the suggestion of intimacy. The wallet is carried daily, touched frequently, and when opened, summons a world of possibility. The wallet as a surrogate hand.<br />Still a wallet, one with a distinctly political message, given by an intelligent women, who must have intuited a change in the air, makes a curious gift. Then, on your father's part, what persuaded him to keep it. Was it simply a momento of that birthday dinner? Or a talisman to keep the dead dictator buried? Or a cynical insurance party should Stalin be resurrected?<br />Odd, the things we find in our father's drawers. We excavate them in search of treasures? We find riddles.RWordplayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13987980380490858573noreply@blogger.com